US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR on Feb. 17 for "Control method for vehicle and control device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,248, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Control method for vehicle and control device for vehicle" was invented by Takehiro Iizumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahide Matsui (Kanagawa, Japan), Hisahiro Nabeshima (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenji Koshiba (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayoshi Yoshino (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Tannai (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Takamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoyuki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Moemi Samata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle selects a parking position or a neutral position when a state in which a P range button (2) or an N range button (4) is operated...